WWALS Watershed Coalition advocates for conservation and stewardship of the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, and Suwannee River watersheds in south Georgia and north Florida through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.

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Naturally, what happened in the Georgia legislature is the most prevalent topic at the Georgia Water Coalition (GWC) Spring Partner Meeting, such as about coal ash and trust funds.
I provoked extended discussion of the value of Capitol Conservation Day: even if it’s hard to get to see a legislator when that many people are there, the mere fact that so many people are there affected legislation.

Speaking: Rena Peck Stricker, E.D., Georgia River Network
WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel is second row from the back, second from the right.
My Georgia Beer Co. hat is on the left (have I mentioned they are the top-level sponsor of our Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest and a sponsor of our BIG Little River Paddle Race)),
two rows in front of Gordon Rogers’ Save the Flint shirt.

Hahira, Georgia, November 21, 2017 —
Factually incorrect, failing to account for LNG export or solar power, and irresponsible for not finding or creating a method for attributing environmental effects to greenhouse gases, as the DC Circuit Court had instructed
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to do:
that’s what nine Riverkeepers called FERC’s Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) yesterday; see their letter to FERC.
The nine include all the Riverkeepers in the path of Sabal Trail and all parts of the Southeast Market Pipelines Project (SMPP) plus others in all three states invaded by those pipelines, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, plus Oklahoma, where the SMPP instigator,
Florida Power & Light (FPL), owns a fracking field,
The nine, who support fishable, swimmable, drinkable water,
pointed out that all of FPL’s original excuses for Sabal Trail have been
proven incorrect, and asked FERC to shut it down.

Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman will
show four years of Sabal Fail, and the Three Stooges plumbing in Dunellon.
WWALS member Cecile Scofield will
talk about LNG export all over Florida.
Flint Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers will explain
what the fossil fuel industry calls the Great Major Victory by Sierra Club, Flint Riverkeeper, and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, and what it means (so far as anyone knows).
WWALS E.D. Gretchen Quarterman will lay out what you can do to help
stop Sabal Trail and reform FERC.
Plus videos.

OilPrice.com calls it “a critical decision yesterday,
that could jeopardize the future for pipeline projects across the country”;
pipeline companies could be “spooked” and
“…the court ruling raises the unsettling
possibility that the project may be forced to shut down —
after billions were spent putting it in into service.”
Other stories say this ‘huge’ win could also affect
the Atlantic Sunrise, Penneast, Atlantic Coast, and Rover Pipelines,
among others.

(L to R) Lea Fox, 4, Finn Ryder Purdy, 4, and Mason Dana, 7, of Lake
Worth, sit with gas pipeline protesters outside of Florida Power and
Light headquarters on Universe Boulevard in Juno Beach on October
14, 2016. The Sabal Trail Pipeline began supplying FPL’s plants in
June. Groups opposed the pipeline that will start in Alabama and
bring fracked gas through several counties in Florida’s springs and
wetlands. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

Sad for FPL, Duke, Spectra, and all the other pipeline-building
purveyors of fracked methane, maybe, but glad for all the
landowners whose land was taken, local citizens who don’t want
a 500+-mile IED next to their homes, schools, and waterways,
and all people who want clean sun and wind energy, not more polluting fossil fuels.

It’s good the industry press agrees with what I told the VDT:
“This is wind in our sails and could be the end of Sabal Trail.”

Flint Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers made the motion and Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman seconded; they also wrote the resolution.

Quarterman explained:

“While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is a U.S. agency, its actions affect the whole world, because much of the gas in the interstate natural gas pipelines FERC rubberstamps is for export.

“Even with Sabal Trail, the fight is not over. The case brought against FERC by Continue reading →